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Re: [KX1] A LiFePO4 internal battery option

Posted by k6dgw on Mar 28, 2011; 2:24am
URL: http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/KX1-A-LiFePO4-internal-battery-option-tp6213539p6213559.html

On 3/27/2011 7:02 PM, Chip Stratton wrote:
> I found some LiFePO3 batteries that fit well within the KX1 case, and
> thought I would share:

I wouldn't put any high energy density battery inside any of my radios.
  The probability of a problem is very small.  The impact if the
probability becomes 1.0 is a new radio at the least, and possibly more.
  My LiPoly for my KX1 [about the size of a small box of matches] is on
a pigtail I can grab and fling off if it catches fire.  One has.

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2011 Cal QSO Party 1-2 Oct 2011
- www.cqp.org
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